Improvement in washing-machines



sind giants JoNAs TRAMBLInoSF SANDWICH, ILLINOIS.

Letters .Patent No. 93,566, (lated August 10, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN' WASHING-MACHINES.

vThe Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JONAS TRAMBLIE, of Sandwich, in the county of De Kalb, and AState of' Illinois,

have invented a new and improved Washing-Machine; and I do hereby7 declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description'of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specication, in which* Figure 1 is a section through line x :c of iig. 2.

Figure 2 is a top View. Y, j

The object of this invention is toprovide for public use an improved washilig-machine, which shall be simple in construction, cheap,.dnrable, easily cleansed and dried, and convenient of operation; to this end,

rlhe invention-consists in the employment Aof a tub or tank, with side ribs and a ribbed and 'perforatedswinging beater, provided with a handle, all constructed and arranged as is shown by the drawings, and as 1 will now more particularly describe.

I u the drawings- A represents the tub or tank. 'B B, the legs which support the tank.

c c, vertical ribs, parallel to each other, and attached to the inner side of the tank.

D, a beater, hung upon pivoted arms el d, provided with a handle, H, and operating in connection with the side ribs c c., it being provided, on the side next to them, with similar ribs e e, arranged so as to come between the-ribs c c, and also with series of perforations on m, arranged between the ribs c e and opposite to the ribs c c, as shown in g. 2.

The tank is to be partially closed with a cover, T, which covers all that portionpof it between theA beater and-the ribbed side of the tank.

Its operation is as follows:

The tub or tank is partially lilled with water, and the clothes are placed between the beater and the ribs c c.

The beater 'is then rocked by means of the handle H, and the clothes alternately compressed betweenthe beater and the stationary ribs. A portion of the water expressed from them `flows back through the holes m m, therest escaping over and under the beater,

ribs c c, arranged with relation to the ribs c eand holes m my, as shown, for the purposes herein set forth.

J ONAS TRAMBLIE.

Witnesses:

S. B. STINsoN, J ULIUs TRAMBLIE.; l 

